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Earlier
this summer, a task force made recommendations regarding restructuring
the 12 Simply Good Eating (SGE) regions to align with the 5 Extension
regions.

These are the recommended changes to the Simply Good Eating program that we will be discussing:Program Coordinators (PCs) will continue to supervise Community
Nutrition Educators (CNEs). Our goal is that each PC will supervise up
to 10 CNEs and give the kind of support that leads to high-quality,
impactful programs.We are creating a new position to supervise the PCs. This new role
will be a largely administrative and operations role, and will be
classed as a Professional Administrative. These new supervisors will
manage the programs funded by EFNEP and SNAP Ed. We anticipate putting
in place these new supervisors by January 1, 2014. The number of
supervisors will be determined by future funding levels.These changes will give Extension educators more time to develop new
program efforts and to learn more about Policy-Sy…

Last fall, the Food Safety Education Team joined Family Development and I want to highlight some important successes that they recently had.

The Food Safety Education team is led by Katherine Waters and works closely with Joelle Friertag, an Extension specialist in Food Science and Nutrition. Four Extension educators currently work on the program team: Deb Botzek-Linn, Kathy Brandt, Suzanne Driessen, and Glenyce Vangsness-Peterson. Connie Schwartau serves as coordinator for the team.

Over the last year, Family Development has had three new program areas/units come under its umbrella: Food Safety Education, Healthy Food Access/Community Food Systems, and the Children, Youth & Family Consortium. We found that with additional staff and programming to support, we needed to adjust and streamline our administrative support team. Here are some of the changes that may be of interest:Rhonda Dragan is now the Graphic/Multimedia Communication Associate, taking over for Jon Fu who has left Family DevelopmentJeanne Laqua is expanding her role and is now providing administrative support to all Family Development Program Leaders, not just Health and Nutrition.Heather Lee is now supervising all staff in administrative support positions.
We are continuing our efforts to strengthen the roles and skills across all administrative staff, helping to ensure we have the best staff and the right roles in the future. To learn more about our programs, go to our website at: http://www.ex…